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Vodoun [fsz034]

by: Chenard Walcker

Chenard Walcker

Publication date: 2005-04-22 00:00:00

Usage: Attribution-NonCommercial

Topics: Alternative, Jazz+Funk, Porn Groove, Sample Madness, Plunderphonics

"Vodoun" plays on the contrast between soulful voices from Benin and the porn grooves of Chenard Walcker. The sound is rough, close to saturation. So Faders up !

Chenard went to Benin (Western Africa) years ago. He bought there some tapes by two traditionnal singers, Le Roi Alokpon and Alekpehanhou. All the voices of "Vodoun" were sampled from these two tapes.

Benin is where is practiced the rite of Vodoun. It's also historically the place from where the slaves were sent to America. That's how Vodoun was imported to Haiti, and it evolved to Voodoo.

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Songs and artwork by Chenard Walcker
cc 2005 Free Sample Zone

Chenard Walcker is a French samplecore artist layering large slabs of pop music, obscure funk, soundtracks, etc. The site offers many albums worth of material as free downloads, as an anti-copyright stance. He also publishes the Free Sample Zone, which is all his material under several monikers, and mostly overlaps the releases under the first link.